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Old 07-11-2010, 08:37 AM   #87
Maggie Leung
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Originally Posted by LDBoblo View Post
Amusingly, a lot of the ebook defenders seem to feel that fiction novels and other applications that slow monochrome EPDs are adequate for are "serious" reading, and the forms of reading that fast color screens can do are somehow less "serious". "Serious" tends to be chosen as it allows the user to be arrogant without outright calling themselves better.
That type of dismissal of color always makes me laugh.

Astronomy, biology, chemistry, economics, investing .... Just a few examples of subjects that benefit from color photos, graphs and such. They seem plenty "serious" to me. It always surprises me how limited some people's perspective can be, that they think about color and think of nothing but fluff.
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